Thurmond Leaves Hospital After Prostate Surgery
Senator Strom Thurmond, 96, was released from Walter Reed Army Medical Center after prostate surgery moved up from November due to chronic enlarged prostate. He walked out with wife Nancy and daughter Julie in good spirits, planning to resume duties.
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Washington
Strom ‘Thurmond
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Nancy
Julie
John DeCrosta
Thurmond
South Carolina
Walter Reed
Congress
Virginia
Aiken Community Band closes Hopelands series
Col Willam Clark and the Aiken Community Band closed the 1999 Hopelands Gardens Summer Concert Series at Monday night with a ten piece program from Sousa to Gershwin. Solo works featured Dr. Jim Boehner and Dr. Jay Rising, with guest conductor Tom Cremer leading two pieces Lerner and Love in Concert and Trombone King. Audience turnout grew with cooler weather and the performance drew praise for its tightness and skill.
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Scott Webster N
Clark
Aiken
Nds Gardens
Col
Willam Clark
Hopelands Gardens
Sousa
Gershwin
Jim Boehner
Jay Rising
Lerner and
Love
Tom Cremer
Aiken County SAT scores inch up in 1999
Aiken County high school seniors posted an average SAT score of 980 in 1999 up one point from 1998. South Aiken High led with 1,034, followed by Silver Bluff at 1,000. Other totals included Aiken 961 and Midland Valley 965 as district officials plan targeted improvements with local education partners.
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Aiken County High School
South Carolina
Linda Eldridge
Aiken County
South Aiken High School
Lynn Landis
South Aiken
Silver Bluff High
Gayle Gulick
SBHS
Aiken High
Midland Valley High
North Augusta High
Ridge Spring-Monetta
Wagener-Salley High
Roy Shealy
Area Four
Ruth Patrick
Aiken
Mid. Valley
N. Augusta
Rs-Monetta
Silver Bluff
S. Aiken
Wag-Salley
S.C
Rs-Monetta Silver Bluff
Wag Salley
Unemployment Rate Dips in State and Counties
The national rate holds at 4.3 percent while South Carolina's unemployment falls to 3.4 percent for the July quarter, matching the March 1998 low. County rates vary from 13.1 percent in Marion to 1.8 percent in Lexington, with Aiken at 4.9 percent. Government employment led declines, including 21,200 education jobs cut for the summer.
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Marion County
Lexington County
Aiken County
South Carolina Employment Security Commission
Joel T. Cassidy
Early school return could lift state jobs in August
Cassidy notes a rise in state and local school employment with school openings, though gains will be tempered by declines in tourist related industries. The service sector cut 2,800 jobs and the trade sector shed 1,500 jobs.
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Cassidy
Condon pushes Palmetto Exile gun law in S C
South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon unveiled the Palmetto Exile program to impose a five year prison sentence without parole for carrying a gun by someone with a violent felony conviction. He was joined by Lt. Gov. Bob Peeler House Speaker David Wilkins Sen Joe Wilson Rep Chip Huggins and Sheriff James Metts in Columbia. The plan targets possession of a gun with large drug quantities and gun use on school property.
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Columbia
Charlie Condon
Bob Peeler
David Wilkins
Joe Wilson
Chip Huggins
Lexington County
James Metts
Condon
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